[clang] [alpha.webkit.RetainPtrCtorAdoptChecker] Don't treat assignment to an +1 out argument as a leak (PR #161633)

Ryosuke Niwa via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed Oct 1 23:58:10 PDT 2025


https://github.com/rniwa created https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/161633

Make RetainPtrCtorAdoptChecker recognize an assignment to an +1 out argument so that it won't emit a memory leak warning.

>From 35ae9ac455dac75db1745984dc740cf276a9dcc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 23:41:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [alpha.webkit.RetainPtrCtorAdoptChecker] Don't treat
 assignment to an +1 out argument as a leak

Make RetainPtrCtorAdoptChecker recognize an assignment to an +1 out argument so that it won't
emit a memory leak warning.
---
 .../WebKit/RetainPtrCtorAdoptChecker.cpp      | 30 ++++++++++++++-----
 .../WebKit/retain-ptr-ctor-adopt-use.mm       |  8 +++++
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/WebKit/RetainPtrCtorAdoptChecker.cpp b/clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/WebKit/RetainPtrCtorAdoptChecker.cpp
index e1f9a77f5a5ca..7440352d8482d 100644
--- a/clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/WebKit/RetainPtrCtorAdoptChecker.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/WebKit/RetainPtrCtorAdoptChecker.cpp
@@ -355,14 +355,30 @@ class RetainPtrCtorAdoptChecker
   void visitBinaryOperator(const BinaryOperator *BO) const {
     if (!BO->isAssignmentOp())
       return;
-    if (!isa<ObjCIvarRefExpr>(BO->getLHS()))
-      return;
+    auto *LHS = BO->getLHS();
     auto *RHS = BO->getRHS()->IgnoreParenCasts();
-    const Expr *Inner = nullptr;
-    if (isAllocInit(RHS, &Inner)) {
-      CreateOrCopyFnCall.insert(RHS);
-      if (Inner)
-        CreateOrCopyFnCall.insert(Inner);
+    if (isa<ObjCIvarRefExpr>(LHS)) {
+      const Expr *Inner = nullptr;
+      if (isAllocInit(RHS, &Inner)) {
+        CreateOrCopyFnCall.insert(RHS);
+        if (Inner)
+          CreateOrCopyFnCall.insert(Inner);
+      }
+      return;
+    } else if (auto *UO = dyn_cast<UnaryOperator>(LHS)) {
+      auto OpCode = UO->getOpcode();
+      if (OpCode == UO_Deref) {
+        if (auto *DerefTarget = UO->getSubExpr()) {
+          DerefTarget = DerefTarget->IgnoreParenCasts();
+          auto *DRE = dyn_cast<DeclRefExpr>(DerefTarget);
+          if (auto *Decl = DRE->getDecl()) {
+            if (!isa<ParmVarDecl>(Decl) || !isCreateOrCopy(RHS))
+              return;
+            if (Decl->hasAttr<CFReturnsRetainedAttr>())
+              CreateOrCopyFnCall.insert(RHS);
+          }
+        }
+      }
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/clang/test/Analysis/Checkers/WebKit/retain-ptr-ctor-adopt-use.mm b/clang/test/Analysis/Checkers/WebKit/retain-ptr-ctor-adopt-use.mm
index 769901778cdf0..3b0f19404097b 100644
--- a/clang/test/Analysis/Checkers/WebKit/retain-ptr-ctor-adopt-use.mm
+++ b/clang/test/Analysis/Checkers/WebKit/retain-ptr-ctor-adopt-use.mm
@@ -182,6 +182,14 @@ void adopt_retainptr() {
   auto bar = adoptNS([allocSomeObj() init]);
 }
 
+CFTypeRef make_cf_obj() CF_RETURNS_RETAINED {
+  return CFArrayCreateMutable(kCFAllocatorDefault, 1);
+}
+
+void get_cf_obj(CFTypeRef* CF_RETURNS_RETAINED result) {
+  *result = CFArrayCreateMutable(kCFAllocatorDefault, 1);
+}
+
 RetainPtr<CFArrayRef> return_arg(CFArrayRef arg) {
   return arg;
 }



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